'Net Features : heart internethttp://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/tags/heart+internet/default.aspxTags: heart internetenCommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)Home PCs are Safer Than Small Business Siteshttp://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2013/05/21/home-pcs-are-safer-than-small-business-sites.aspxTue, 21 May 2013 08:00:00 GMT1e469e21-c924-44fa-a132-47b5d0a8ad47:25120Michael Garrity0http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=25120http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2013/05/21/home-pcs-are-safer-than-small-business-sites.aspx#comments<hr />
<p><strong>UK-based Web hosting and domain name provider <a target="_blank" href="https://www.heartinternet.uk/">Heart Internet</a> recently released a handy infographic that compares the state of website security to that of personal computer security, and found that site security &ldquo;simply isn&rsquo;t taken as seriously as the measures we take for our home computers.&rdquo;</strong><br /><br />The Website Invaders infographic (see below), which playfully adapts its theme from the once-popular arcade game Space Invaders, begins by comparing the percentage of home computers that have an anti-virus software installed (96 percent) with the number of small business websites that use an anti-virus software, which is just 65 percent, despite the fact that 6000 websites are blacklisted by search engines everyday for carrying viruses.<br /><br />In addition, the infographic also provides helpful tips for both PC and site owners. It warns them both not to simply ignore updates to their anti-virus software (and we&rsquo;re all guilty of that sometimes, aren&rsquo;t we?), and to downloaded them whenever they&rsquo;re prompted to do so.<br /><br />And when it comes to password protection, easily one of the most common security measures in the tech world, 75 percent of PC users use passwords to protect their data, but only 50 percent of small business sites do, despite the fact that they house a lot of employee and consumer information. The infographic says that passwords that are nine characters long and use a mixture of numbers, symbols and upper and lowercase letters will take over 40,000 years to crack, and that regularly changing passwords helps site owners stay ahead of password hacking techniques.<br /><br />Heart Internet also discovered that only 45 percent of home PCs and 35 percent of small business websites are protected from phishing, although around 156 million phishing emails are sent every day, and the number of phishing attacks around the world reached 445,004 in 2012, a 58 percent increase from the year before.<br /><br />And finally, the company found that while 40 percent of small business&rsquo;s backup their website data online, only 23 percent of home users have secure data backups. The infographic advises PC owners to backup sensitive data on a hard drive with a secure password, and informs small business sites to take regular backups so that they can easily restore their sites to their most recent clean states.</p>
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/aggbug.aspx?PostID=25120" width="1" height="1">website securityinfographicwm-webhostingheart internetspace invadersMake Money Selling Unwanted Domainshttp://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2012/09/06/make-money-selling-unwanted-domains.aspxThu, 06 Sep 2012 18:00:00 GMT1e469e21-c924-44fa-a132-47b5d0a8ad47:21094Michael Garrity1http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=21094http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2012/09/06/make-money-selling-unwanted-domains.aspx#comments<hr />
<p><strong>Don&rsquo;t you just hate when you have a bunch of extra domains laying around, just taking up space and cluttering thing up?</strong><br /><a href="http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/" target="_blank"><br />Heart Internet</a>, a U.K.-based Web hosting provider, totally agrees with you, that&rsquo;s why it is adding a new feature to its control panel that makes it easy for customers to sell their unwanted domains, which certainly beats just letting them hang around until they expire. It&rsquo;s also a nice way to maybe make a little back on one&rsquo;s initial domain investment, as domain names on the secondary marketplace are more likely to be purchased for a premium price by people searching for specific domains related to their brands.<br /><br />Shoppers can see the domains up for purchase in their search results, and the system will allow them to buy the name at a price determined by its current owner. All they have to do is add it to their cart, and then the seller will be notified of the sale (and then paid, of course).<br /><br />Basically, it&rsquo;s giving sellers an opportunity to make money on domains they don&rsquo;t even want anymore, and helping others buy up domains they want for their brands without having to fight for them once they expire and return to the general marketplace. Plus, it will likely offer lower service charges for domain sales, meaning sellers can make even more money on the deal. It&rsquo;s a win-win situation.<br /><br />Heart customers will be able to sell .com, .net, .org, .co, .me, .biz and .info domains that they have registered, renewed or transferred since May 31 of 2012. They can also provide a brokerage service for the people who buy their domains.</p>
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